A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.

A popular American novelist, who has written her first non-fiction work about the political infideli...

Melvin Junko was a nerdy weakling until he fell into a vat of toxic waste, turning him into the firs...

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...

All of the Clow Cards have been captured, and Sakura Kinomoto, the new Master of the Cards, is prepa...

Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything ...

A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opport...

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians wh...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godz...

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss ...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the isla...

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside...

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japa...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...